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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

SISU! wrote:

> Bill Jones wrote:
>   Summer drought is just the reality out west.  It's
>  
>
> > summer rain that freaks me out.  The drought is just the main reason
> > why you can't necessarily set up a pasture anywhere here and succeed.
> >
> >    
> Set up a pasture??  Why are you trying to fight nature?
> If there is no natural pasture that you can shepherd, then don't try to
> put one in!
>
>  B
>  
This place was all trees once, from the looks of things.  Because of its 
natural water flow, it supports grass.  The other 35 acres of the 
subdivision aren't so lucky, and yes, it would be better not to have 
cleared them, unless the folks needed the money for something.

So I am wrong to conclude that the green, cleared hills of Kentucky make 
a natural pasture, and the brown ones here don't?

Bill
S. Oregon coast